Beyond Good
and Evil
№ 001
Why beyond good and evil?

We are what we
think.

We are what we 
think.

Nearly 140 years ago, Nietzsche predicted the way we would think in 2026.

A close reading of Beyond Good and Evil is a profound and unsettling experience. When we undertake the challenging study of a philosophical text, we build an understanding of how worlds in thought are constructed and what is at stake when they fall apart. This forces us to confront our own thought process and offers us tools to grapple with the revelation that there are alternative ways to construct the world. This capacity in turn gives us hope that we can resolve dysfunctional paradigms by building new ones.

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"Suppose we want truth: why not rather untruth? And uncertainty? Even ignorance?"
— Friedrich Nietzsche, beyond good and evil
№ 002Course offering

Beyond
Good and Evil

Prelude to a philosophy of the future

An intimate, 12-week close reading

Beyond Good and Evil is one of the most relevant philosophical works today, written by one of the West’s most controversial, poetic, and prophetic thinkers. A masterful philosophical diagnostician, Nietzsche foresaw the demise of the Platonic-Christian paradigm that had been the foundation of European thought and culture for two millennia, and worried about a perilous dead end in our thinking.  

This text is an indispensable guide to understanding where we are now, from the individual sense of meaninglessness to the polarization in politics. It is a book about how we think, a book about our time.

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"To understand how a philosopher's most remote metaphysical assertions have actually been arrived at, it is always wise to first ask oneself: 'What morality does he aim at?'"
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
15 seats per cohort.
TWELVE WEEKS.
BEGINS SEPT 20TH, 2026.
№ 003Our method

Education as
transformation.

We are drawn to a great philosophical text because we desire a new paradigm of thinking. But when a radically new way of framing something that we feel we already understand comes at us, we have an unwitting tendency to domesticate the foreign by blending it into how we already think.

This course teaches us an alternative method. We will actively seek out the gaps in our understanding, the cracks where the light gets in, learning to resist our default move to close them. This approach to reading will instead widen them, so that the light of the alternative can flood in, expanding and transforming what we thought we understood.

№ 004The Sandbox

A course on
Part I.

In this course, we will spend twelve weeks on the 23 sections of Part I of Beyond Good and Evil. Like a universe in a grain of sand, Part I contains the conceptual richness and depth of Nietzsche’s entire philosophical project, while providing for the slow and careful reading optimal for philosophical education.  

In Part I, Nietzsche addresses the Western philosophical tradition, ranging from Plato and the Stoics to Descartes and Kant, while keeping its relationship to his own philosophical world as his central focus. The conceptual tools we develop in this course prepare us not only for the rest of Nietzsche's book, but for any other paradigm-shifting thinker that we will read in the future.

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№ 005Course details

Training
components

The TextThe SeminarWriting PromptsConferences
01
Twelve weekly seminars

One two-hour seminar per week, in which Professor Marina Vitkin will guide the class through the text, line by line. Marina has taught Nietzsche for over thirty years. She will model how to uncover the layers of meaning in individual lines and link them to Nietzsche's larger philosophical project. 

02
1 on 1 conferences with your philosophical tutor

While the seminar models masterful navigation in action, your conferences are where you learn to become a navigator yourself. Every two weeks you will meet for 50 minutes with your tutor. These sessions will focus on the movements of logic in your written responses to the text, and on your habits of thinking within the course and beyond. 

03
Writing as a gateway to your thinking

Bi-weekly writing prompts help you make the implicit in your thinking explicit on the page. This is the primary lens to identify your unconscious assumptions and the leaps in your logic. The writing is limited to a page of reconstructing how a section of Beyond Good and Evil moves from one idea to the next, which makes visible whether you have read something into the text rather than out of it. 

04
Two sessions with the professor

Twice during the course you will meet 1 on 1 with Marina. These 50 minute sessions are personalized to your learning journey. They can provide a rigorous exploration into how you approach philosophical thinking, or an opportunity to discuss in depth whatever areas of the text you are most drawn to.  

Syllabus
Testimonials
“I studied philosophy with Marina in college. Coming back to it 15 years later, I was shocked how much normal life had atrophied my brain. I have a job in tech and a kid. Thinking deeply is a muscle and if you don't train it, you lose it. Marina doesn't just teach the material. She trains us to become philosophers, even if only for five hours a week.”
— KIM, HEAD OF INSIGHTS IN TECHNOLOGY
№ 006Your guides

Marina Vitkin

Professor of Philosophy

Marina Vitkin is a professor and philosophical scholar who has dedicated her life to teaching in the spaces where she is best able to transform her students’ lives. Her pedagogical scope ranges from lecture courses numbering hundreds of students at the University of Toronto to small seminars and one on ones at Sarah Lawrence College, where the unique liberal arts approach let her focus on personally guiding students through their philosophical development. Over her thirty years of teaching Nietzsche, Marina has developed a unique pedagogical approach that makes the text come alive. Students absorb how rigorous study of great philosophy is not only a fruitful intellectual endeavor, but also a deeply pleasurable one.

Your Philosophical Tutor

1 on 1 Conferences

In addition to your seminar classes and meetings with Marina, you will be paired with a tutor for bi-weekly sessions throughout the course. Every tutor on the team has spent at least a decade studying philosophy and has been trained in our pedagogical method. Our role is to meet you where you are in your thinking, and identify through discussion of your writing what invisible tripwires are getting in the way of your intellectual growth. In this way we will support you in developing a richer command of the text as well as a meta-understanding of your own learning process. 

№ 007Enrollment

Spaces are limited to 15 seats.

Admission process is by short letter, followed by a call with one of our tutors to ensure the course is right for you, and you for it.

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Course begins September 20th

TWELVE WEEKS. PART ONE. 
A UNIVERSE IN A GRAIN OF SAND.

№ 008Questions

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№ 009Syllabus

Twelve weeks, Part I.

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"Before my highest mountain do I stand, and before my longest wandering: therefore must I first go deeper down than I ever ascended: — Deeper down into pain than I ever ascended, even into its darkest flood! So wills my fate. Well! I am ready."
— FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA